Motivational Quotes

Youth

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Youth

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

24.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.